An Account of His Majesty’s De Meuron Regiment 1795-1816
During campaigns in Ceylon, India, the Mediterranean and Canada.
By David C. J. Howell
De Meuron Regiment Uniform 1812, Service D’Angleterre 1805-1816 (courtesy Musee d’Histoire Neuchatel)
Acknowledgements
My thanks are due to Alistair Nichols for his constructive guidance and valuable input, to Andrew Cormack and David Swift for their advice, Nour Gassa for her translations, Christopher Bryant, who provided images and information on John Buncombe, the staff at the British Library, and Anne Morddel, French author and genealogist.
Contents
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Chapter 1 Soldiers for Hire, 1240-1781
Chapter 2 The Cape and Ceylon, 1781-1788
Chapter 3 Enter the British, 1794 -1795
Chapter 4 How to Buy a Regiment, 1795
Chapter 5 India, 1795-1799
Chapter 6 The Fourth Anglo-Mysore War 1799
Chapter 7 The Campaigns in Mysore
Chapter 8 A Silhouette and War in the Mediterranean, 1806-1811
Chapter 9 Canada, 1813-1816
Chapter 10 Disbandment, Two Artists and the Tate Gallery